2024 Best Museum Studies Schools in the Far Western US Region
3Colleges in the Far Western US Region
68Museum Studies Degrees Awarded
$41,323Avg Early-Career Salary
Museum Studies degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #275 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Museum Studies Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 68 degrees in museum studies during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of museum studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Museum Studies School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Museum Studies Schools in the Far Western US Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Museum Studies in the Far Western US Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the museum studies degree levels they offer.
Top Far Western US Region Schools in Museum Studies
University of Washington - Seattle Campus is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in museum studies. Located in the large city of Seattle, UW Seattle is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #37 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UW Seattle is a great university overall.
There were about 34 museum studies students who graduated with this degree at UW Seattle in the most recent data year. Soon after graduating, museum studies degree recipients typically earn about $35,038 in their early careers.
University of San Francisco is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in museum studies. USFCA is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of San Francisco. This university ranks 24th out of 168 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 19 museum studies students who graduated with this degree at USFCA in the most recent data year. Those museum studies students who get their degree from University of San Francisco earn $6,285 more than the average museum studies graduate.
Every student who is interested in museum studies needs to take a look at San Francisco State University. SFSU is a fairly large public university located in the city of San Francisco. This university ranks 35th out of 168 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 9 museum studies students who graduated with this degree at SFSU in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).